Thearticlefocuseson a comprehensivestudyoftheproblemofmedicalcaretoprisonersofwarintheAstrakhanregionintheyearsofworld warsasanimportantcomponentofmilitarycaptivity. Theauthorsanalyzetheregionalspecificityofhealthcareofprisoners, theactions ofmedicalservicesfortheorganizationandimplementationofhealthcaretoprisonersofwar.

This article continues the theme of the war captivity started in previous publications. There is carried out the comparative analysis of the support and guarding of war prisoners at the territory of our country based on the experience of the world wars. There is researched the issue of organization of the optimal regime of war prisoners support, which creates the conditions for contingent isolation, guarding and defence of objects, and excludes the opportunity to escape.

There is regarded the issue of establishment and work of the only Russian organization of numerous victims of the war - the Union of Juvenile Prisoners of Nazi Camps. There is highlighted the legal status, the question of the state and public acceptance of the problems of former juvenile prisoners. The attention is paid to the issue of memory about the war; those who overcame this ordeal are the last witnesses of the war.

This article starts a series of works considering the issue of a person in the conditions of captivity in the period of the Great Patriotic War. The project is aimed at finding out the characteristics that reflect the political and law, social and economic, culture and communicative aspects of captivity. In spite of the big historiography of the issue, many aspects are still uncertain. There is recreated the captivity by the example of the Astrakhan region.

There is covered the status of foreigners in the Russian province, considered the government policy carried out in this sphere in the period of the war with the Napoleonic France, attitude of the society to the foreigners who were under the surveillance of the police including the prisoners of the war.